Double-edged sword

I have always been a bit hesitant about starting a blog. It seems to me that with the rise of the internet, everyone has the chance to have a go at what has been in the past the preserve of broadcasters and celebrities, ie. they have the chance to speak to a global audience. The problem with that, though, is that there are so many voices that it is virtually impossible, in the plethora of opinions, to distinguish the people who have something pertinent to say from those who do not. Anyhow, I thought I might start a blog anyway, and just hope that I belong to the former catagory rather than the latter. With this in mind, I shall attempt to keep any tedious wittering to minimum.

Unfortunately, I feel I might be about to get boring already. Today happens to be the day that Tony Blair officially steps down as British prime minister. I can only hope that Gordon Brown will do a better job (though it would be hard to imagine how he could possibly be worse). The only bad thing that has come from this event, though, is the rather worrying news that Blair could be apppointed as a peace envoy to the Middle East. Well. Maybe its just me, but I was under the impression that for important tasks its generally a good idea to employ someone who might actually do the job well, so therefore not Tony Blair, who, along with a number of other leaders, has tended, in the past to do a very good job of instigating the exact opposite of peace. Perhaps they just got the job title confused. Perhaps he is in fact slated for the post of “war envoy”, responsible for propagating continuing conflict in the Middle East and surrounding areas. It might make more logical sense, when you consider his track record.